1 Kings 15:14
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.
1 Kings 15:14 in other translations
| BSB | The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days. |
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| WEB | But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the LORD all his days. |
| ASV | But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all his days. |
| YLT | and the high places have not turned aside; only, the heart of Asa hath been perfect with Jehovah all his days, |
| DARBY | But the high places were not removed; only, Asa's heart was perfect with Jehovah all his days. |
| BBE | The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life. |
| Webster | But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days. |
What does 1 Kings 15:14 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 15:9-24
Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. That is right indeed which is so in God's eyes. Asa's times were times of reformation. He removed that which was evil; there reformation begins, and a great deal he found to do. When Asa found idolatry in the court, he rooted it out thence. Reformation must begin at home. Asa honours and respects his mother; he loves her well, but he loves God better. Those that have…
1 Kings 15:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Kings 15:14
- 1 Kings 22:43
And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
- 1 Kings 8:61
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
- 1 Kings 15:3
And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
- 2 Kings 12:3
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
- 2 Chronicles 15:17-18
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
- 2 Kings 14:4
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
- 2 Chronicles 14:3
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
- 2 Chronicles 14:5
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
- 2 Kings 15:4
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
- 1 Kings 11:4
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
- 2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
- 2 Chronicles 25:2
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.
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Context
- 1 Kings 15:13
And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
- 1 Kings 15:14
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.
- 1 Kings 15:15
And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the Lord, silver, and gold, and vessels.
1 Kings 15:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Empero los altos no se quitaron: con todo, el corazón de Asa fué perfecto para con Jehová toda su vida. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais les hauts lieux ne furent pas ôtés; cependant le cœur d’Asa fut parfait avec l’ Éternel, tous ses jours. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Die Höhen aber wichen nicht; doch das Herz Asas war ungeteilt mit Jehova alle seine Tage. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | excelsa autem non abstulit. Verumtamen cor Asa perfectum erat cum Domino cunctis diebus suis: |